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From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: Collectd needs to be updated
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2022 11:21:53 +0000
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Hello,

> On 8 Jan 2022, at 11:19, Peter M=C3=BCller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wro=
te:
>=20
> Hello development folks,
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> by coincidence, I stumbled across Collectd today.
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> Currently, we ship version 4.10.9 of it, released 2013-04-08. The latest re=
lease, however,
> is 5.12.0 (2020-09-03, as displayed in https://collectd.org/files/), while =
https://collectd.org/news.shtml
> still mentions 5.8.0 (2017-11-21) as the latest one.
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> Either way, we are lacking updates here. :-)

Not really. The format of the RRD databases has been changed in version 5 whi=
ch is the reason why we are still on version 4.

There are a couple of conversations about this on this list which should poin=
t out what work has to be done to migrate. It will be at least:

* Updating collectd
* Export all RRD databases (potentially convert the data) and then create dat=
abases of the new format
* Update the code that generates the graphs to reflect the changed format

I always considered this a major task which isn=E2=80=99t worth the work.

-Michael

> Does anyone have some spare time for Collectd left, and is willing to work =
on this?
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> Thanks in advance, and best regards,
> Peter M=C3=BCller


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